Ryan, chair of the House Budget Committee also called on both parties to bring “specific ideas” to the negotiating table, not just rhetoric. He described the country as “divided.”

The congressman described the Romney-Ryan hotel suite the night the Republican ticket lost the presidential election as “pretty sad.”

But asked by the Sentinel if the loss meant voters had rejected the Republican vision for the country, Ryan refused defeat and jabbed back that only certain pockets of the country were with President Obama.

Well, he got turnout. The president should get credit for achieving record-breaking turnout numbers from urban areas for the most part, and that did win the election for him.